Why can't some people accept Vegetarians and Vegans?!
You cannot 'bully' me for being a vegetarian.
I have never met a vegetarian who forces their opinion down your throat.
I enjoy my diet. I hope you do too.
BUT PLEASE stop bashing me for what I eat.
It's getting ridiculous now, don't you think? :-)
Answers: It's a personal choice.
You cannot 'bully' me for being a vegetarian.
I have never met a vegetarian who forces their opinion down your throat.
I enjoy my diet. I hope you do too.
BUT PLEASE stop bashing me for what I eat.
It's getting ridiculous now, don't you think? :-)
first of all
THANK YOU.
i'm vegan, and people at my school think i'm a freak.
this one kid won't stop making fun of me, telling me animals were meant to be killed and laughing in my face. all because i care about animals.
some people are just insecure about other people being different than themselves i suppose. i dont understand them.
but cheer up, animals of the world thank you, and because of your (our) choice, some of them have won their lives back.
Everyone thinks that they are right regardless the position. Therefore they will defend what they do (whether diet, religion, lifestyle, etc) until the day they die and/or change because they realize they aren't. I feel like I'm right for what I do, and you feel you're right, and then your bully feels he's right too. It's just something people don't like conceding on or letting go of because it implies that they agree with the other side, or it implies that they are in the wrong. As long as they're putting you down or vigorously defending their stance, there's no room for them to make changes in their own lives or examine whether, in fact, they might be the ones that are wrong on some points.
Above all don't let it get to you. There's going to be someone out there that will dislike you or put you down regardless of what you do. Bullies feed off of what they do to you - making you question yourself, making you doubt your life, choices and decisions. Take the high road and don't let them get to you... and just watch them repeatedly stoop lower and lower to try to get to you. At that point there's no dispute, you look like the better person anyway and you win by proxy. Just fly above this nonsense. :)
I think you don't know enough vegetarians:)
I'm a vegan and I don't care what anyone else eats but I've got TONS of vegetarian/vegan friends who are super rude and judgemental about people eating meat or dairy, wearing leather or stupid stuff like eating honey? I think to be honest, the vegans I know are WAY ruder than the people who eat meat & tease me about not eating anything from animals.
I think everyone should stop though being so rude though, I know how annoying it can be. People from all sides are just really close minded, and have plain old bad manners in my opinion:(
i have definitely met vegetarians who force their opinions down your throat. i like animals, too- but I also eat meat. I don't eat dairy products, but i do eat free-range, grass-fed beef from local, family-owned farms. i think knowing where your food comes from is the most important thing you can do as a consumer. i know vegans who will order a bean burrito from taco bell because it's VEGAN...but i would never eat there because they get their meat from slaughterhouses, and i wouldn't support that. see what i mean?
I know, its like being religious or atheist.
people are raised badly. especially when they are discriminated for being emotional and then they lose emotions, like when boys are crying and adults are telling them that its wrong for boys to cry but okay for girls. if people are emotional, they will accept you for whoever you are. but if kids are raised improperly, they will become cold hearted and for them everything is wrong, being religious or atheist, vegeterian, living healthy without drugs or alcohol. we need to raise kids properly like we should, without any stereotypes that makes this world worse.
You may not force your opinion down others' throat, but plenty of veggie-minded people do. I am a vegan. I'll educate people when they ask me why I don't eat meat, but I don't get in their face about it. There are MANY militant vegans out there who will get in people's faces and be judgmental. I think THAT is why many meat-eaters find us difficult to accept. That plus the fact that most people have been socialized to eat meat and those who choose not to are thought of as just plain WEIRD. Like we're being WEIRD on purpose.
I find a lot of omnivores WAY more judgmental of my choices than I am of theirs, which isn't hard to do considering I don't give a **** what someone else eats, but apparently what I eat (or don't eat, as the case may be) bothers them.
I personally have never met a forceful vegetarian either, but an old friend of mine did tell me of a vegetarian friend she had who went preachy on her when she became a vegetarian.
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I've talked to fellow vegetarians and vegans who have been ridiculed and laughed at for their diet. I was teased by a manager at my former job for being vegan... and what's worse is this guy had a brother and sister-in law who were vegan and were raising their child vegan. I feel sorry for the brother!
It can go both ways. I've been the target of teasing and "bullying"... sometimes to the point where their words would stick with me for the rest of the day and really bring me down. It's a shame that people cannot be more accepting of other peoples' lifestyles, but they're the ones who are hurting in the long run by their cynicism and hateful words.
Stay strong and hold your head up high :)
In my experience, when someone finds out I'm a vegetarian they either ask me why (in a sincere way) or make fun of me. When they ask why I tell them, not preach to them (nobody wants to be preached to about anything). Then there are the jerks that will find out then proceed to moo as they eat their burger, trying to make me mad. It's really annoying and immature. I don't care what anyone else eats so why do they care what I eat?! Maybe we'll never know...
Unfortunately for you my friend, the neural pathways of the human brain accept change very inefficiently. They tend to burn behavior into little paths that the average mind has difficulty surmounting.
You will only frustrate yourself if you try to get lesser minds to change. Accept their bashing as the railing of a mediocre brain struggling to embrace an unsure transformation.
Sure, it is important to understand their position, and accept people for what they can be. Just don't let their issues rankle you.
I am a meat eater. I would never bully you. In fact I have fought sorely for your right to do just what the hell you choose.
Cheers.
I'm sick of it too. People tend to make an entire conversation about why I don't eat meat. I just try to ignore them, but one day I may just snap and toss their precious meat in their face.
Who's bullying you? You make it sound as if there are "Vegertarians, Eat Meat!" signs wherever you go. You've "never met a vegetarian who forces their opinions down your throat"? good for you. But I would think that a fellow vegetarian would not tell another one to vegetarian. That would make it redundant don't you think? Preaching to the choir as it were. But how would you categorize protesting at restaruants such as KFC, of which something which I am sure you've heard? Or a post that ends with "I am a vegetarian because I don't want to murder animals"? What do you think that implies?
You enjoy your diet? Good, so do the emat eaters? Why do you think they keep on eating it?
"Stop bashing me for what i eat" Many vegetarians have turned this section into the anti meat-eating sectyion. It's supposed to be food and drink as in recipes, food help etc etc. Your question falls under this category? You are more likely to find posts that bash the meat eating industry,the meat eating people, the dairy industry, the fast food restaurants,the animal testing industry etc etc than you are likely to find an anti vegetable post. Say "I eat meat because..."and the thumbs down down almost immediately no matter else what you say. many vegtarians have even suggested that any meat eatershjopuld get out of this forum. They own it?? Who is really bashing who?
Yes it is getting ridiculous. i came to this section to find recipes for a new restaruant we are planning to open somtime later this year. I answered a few questions as honestly as I can and in the process pointed out a few observations regarding vegans and trie d to corrct obvious errors in infomation posted. You know what i got? A few emails saying this and that. Some of them coming from but not limited to a few 10-13 year olds who PREACHED to me why their lifestyle is so much more superior to mine. I can list down the names they called me including a few flowery descriptions about my wife and mother but Yahoo won't accept those four and five letter words on this section. But I assume you pretty much know what they are.
Yes it is getting ridiculous. A 31year old woman telling a 10 year old girl who wants to be a vegetarian to email her so she can tell her what to do despite the fact that the 10 year old has already said that her parents are totally against it. Other adults telling the child her parents are basically idiots and (a favorite vegetarian term for omnivores) "bllissfully uninformed". And getting praises and thumbs up for it. Adults telling children to openly defy her parents is accepable because it is pro vegetarian? I think that's a felony in some states but I guess pretty much acceptable here. Why is that?
You cannot please all the people all the time. You cannot even satisfy fellow vegetarians all the time too. Somewhere along the long road of your life, you will meet peole who will not agree with you and express those disagreements in the manner in which they see fit. They will preach, rant, bash, whine, ignore you etc etc. How you react is your concern. But as much as vegetarians/vegans can post what they think, so can other people. If you feel your are being "bashed" by an "eat meat gay boy" post then how do you think omnis feel when somebody posts "Meat is Murder" or "Milk is Rape"?
Just do what you thnk is best for you.if somebody disagrees, so be it. It's their right. If they get physical, that's what the laws and the police are for. You will fnd life much simpler that way.
i dont mind it means more meat for me
"I have never met a vegetarian who forces their opinion down your throat."
I do not believe that. At all.